Your turn: Letters to the editor

Republicans talk on about the need to “reform entitlements.” By this I assume they mean cut Social Security and Medicare. They’re shifty, though. They avoid specifics. Cut where? How much? As the saying goes, the devil’s in the details.

Social Security and Medicare aren’t “freebies.” They’re not “government handouts.” People pay into them through their payroll taxes. In the case of Medicare, they also pay out-of-pocket deductibles.